'Something is wrong': MAGA pundits say Trump is 'lying to us' about Charlie Kirk

[Ol Janx Spirit]

9. Since when does anyone on the right have to "know" anything to claim some grand conspiracy that only...

...they can see while the rest of the world is being happily lied to?

In the footage of him jumping off the roof it looks to me like he has the fully assembled rifle in a duffle bag of some kind.
You can see it in the video at the end of this post and decide for yourself.

In the pre-shooting video he appears to only have a backpack, so either it is disassembled there or it was already staged on the roof.

But Savage and those like him do not care about any of that. They found out long ago that there is fame and money in pushing untruths to an audience all-too hungry to adopt them as gospel. And that is a huge part of where we find ourselves in this moment: too many among us want a story; not a truth.

In ancient times a story could serve humanity well by easing the uncertainty of not having the knowledge base at hand to develop a truth. A story was better than nothing, and it could serve as a stand-in for real knowledge to help humans move forward collectively and organize.

But in modern times it seems knowledge is a victim of its own success. People still crave a story. And in a world where knowledge has made so many strides in curing disease, making life easier to live, explaining what once seemed inexplicable, and creating a global community through technology that was once unimaginable, the stories have to get evermore outrageous to be relevant.

Unfortunately, truth is what it is--but a story can be whatever you want it to be. And for too many among us those stories are driving them to participate in our very destruction.